First treasure recovered from $20bn sunken ship

Learning English from the News

2025-11-26

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(Photo via Getty Images) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download a free worksheet ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The story A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup have been recovered from a ship that sank over 300 years ago. The ship, called the San Jose, was sunk by British ships in 1708, near Cartagena in Colombia. San Jose is thought to have $20bn worth of gold and silver coins on board, according to some estimates. Colombia, Spain, an American company and indigenous groups in Bolivia have all claimed that this treasure belongs to them. News headlines Archeologists recover treasures from the legendary 1708 San Jose, wrecked in war Fox Weather First treasures from 'holy grail of shipwrecks' recovered Sky News Coins, cannon recovered from legendary ship that sunk 3 centuries ago with billions of dollars in treasure CBS News Key words and phrases wreck destroy or damage badly holy grail something that lots of people want, but is very hard to find legendary well-known and talked about a lot Next  Find all our news programmes. Listen to BBC news reports and answer questions with The Listening Room. Read short-magazine style articles and answer questions with The Reading Room.
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  • In this programme, first treasure recovered from $20 billion sunken ship.

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  • A cannon,

  • three coins and a porcelain cup have been recovered from a ship that sank over 300 years ago.

  • The ship, called the San Jose, was sunk by British ships in 1708 near Cartagena in Colombia.

  • The ship is thought to have $20 billion worth of gold and silver coins on board,

  • according to some estimates.

  • Colombia, Spain,

  • an American company and indigenous groups in Bolivia have all claimed that this treasure belongs to them.

  • Colombian scientists located the ship in 2015 and launched an expedition to explore it last year.

  • Let's have our first headline.

  • This one is from Fox Weather, an American broadcaster.

  • Archaeologists recover treasures from the legendary 1708 San Jose, wrecked in war.